Author : Bruce Alan Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 1995-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521437356
At once the most light-hearted and disturbing of Mozart and Da Ponte's Italian comic works, the opera has provoked widely differing reactions from listeners for more than two centuries. This study provides a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth and Italian literary classics.